Summaries of Visions of the Latter-day Saints

As we look at summary points from various latter-day visions, you will see the following themes:

 

1. Earthquake
2. Multiple Plagues
3. Economic Collapse Worldwide
4. Civil War in America (again)
5. Foreign Troops in America/Nuclear Strikes
6. Places of Refuge protect Saints from Calamities

 

Visions we will look at key points of in this section:

Patriarch Charles Evans

President John Taylor

Heber C. Kimball

President George Albert Smith

Vision of Plagues from ‘The Contributor’ Magazine, 1884

Cardston Temple Prophecy

Alma Erickson (1930)

Sarah Menet

Suzanne Freeman

Visions of Glory

 

Summary of Patriarch Charles Evans

 

• Fears for the State of the Union
• Sees the tribulation period and the wickedness of the country.
• Sees multitudes fleeing to the place of safety in the mountains where the church was established.
• Confidence is lost – wealth against labor, labor against wealth  Sees economic collapse that triggers a civil war.
• Earthquakes begin in vast chasms all over the U.S.
• Multiple plagues are released, atmosphere is leaden hue.
• Foreign power invades the country, our men come out of the mountains to rescue the constitution and drive out the foreign troops.
• The gospel goes forth again. The New Jerusalem temple is built and becomes the center of the country.
• Details about the state of the Millennium.

 

Summary of President John Taylor

 

• Saw badges of mourning on every house in Salt Lake City (plague).
• Streets empty. People walking with bundles to get to the mountains.  
• Civil war. Family against family, men killing one another, tulmult.  
• Washington DC, White House was empty. Everything in ruins.
• Monuments blown up.
• Water in Chesapeake Bay stagnant.
• Philadelphia everyone was dead.
• New York dead everywhere, destruction, death and rapine.
• No carriages, buggies or cars were running.  
• Mighty fire raging.
• Missouri River desolate, but 12 men dressed in temple robes consecrating the ground to build the New Jerusalem temple.
• Saw people coming from the desert mountains to build the temple.
• Great pillar of clouds hovering over the temple site.

       

 

 

Summary of Heber C. Kimball

 

• Army of Elders will be sent out to the four quarters to search out and warn the wicked of what is coming.  
• Salt Lake City will be classed among the wicked cities of the world.
• A spirit of speculation and extravagance will take possession of the Saints, and the results will be financial bondage.
• Persecution comes next. All true LDS will be tested to the limit.  
• Many will apostatize. Darkness will cover the land and the minds of the people.  
• The judgments of God will be poured out on the wicked.
• Elders far and near will be called home.
• Missouri will be swept clean.
• Prophet Joseph will make an appearance to the faithful at Adom-ondi-Ahman.

 

 

Summary of President George Albert Smith

 

• There will be a another great war that will make the Great Depression look like a Sunday picnic.
• People will drop like flies.
• Soviet Union’s military will dwarf the U.S. (happened under Obama)
• S. withdraws its missiles from Europe (happened in 1988)  Until then all presidents will be of British or No. European ancestry.
• Trucks will be planted along the highways and detonate all at once.
• Nuclear strikes and an EMP.
• Conditions will return to pre-1800 ancestors.
• There will be a nuclear attack on a holiday after a new president is elected (but before he takes office).

 

Summary of Vision of Plagues from ‘The Contributor’ Magazine, 1884

 

• Messenger hands him a book called the “Book of the Plagues”.
• Feast in progress, appearance of a midsummer feast.
• Sky is a sickly brassy hue.
• Small white specs were falling from the sky into the food. So small as to be invisible to the naked eye.
• Sudden destruction had come upon them.
• Foul odor in the air. Death everywhere. Stores unlocked, dogs eating the bodies.  
• “A camp of Saints who have gathered together are living under the daily revelations of God and are thus preserved from the plague.”
• Saw tents in rows reaching as far as the surrounding trees, clean and white.

 

Summary of Cardston Temple Prophecy

 

• International break out on the Pacific Ocean. (WWIII)
• Opposing forces where Christians on one side, followers of Mohammed on the other.  
• Antagonism expressed towards the LDS.
• National revolution occur in every country.
• Geological disturbances.
• Boundary lines dissolve (Canadian and Mexican border).
• Race rioting on a vast scale.
• Hunger, starvation, disease, strife and chaos.
• Events continuous and ran concurrently.
• Higher spiritual beings prepare the high officials of your church, impressing them, warning them.
• Saw instructions given whereby places of refuge were prepared quietly but efficiently by the inspired elders. Vast quantities of supplies are stored up.
• A great apostasy. Hostility towards our faith.
• Vast quantities of necessaries supplied by members whose spiritual eyes had been opened. Saw a liquidation of properties and effects disposed of quietly but quickly by members of the church as the spiritual influences directed them.
• Inspired call sent forth to all the church, to gather to the refuges of Zion.

 

 

Summary of Alma Erickson (1930)

 

• People will esteem one another according to their possession of wealth and not according to the value of the soul.
• There will be a great apostasy in the church.
• There will be poverty and starvation sweep the land.
• Money becomes increasingly worthless. US money becomes worthless.  
• Gasoline will disappear and nothing shall be hauled over the rails.
• Women shall exceed the men in number.
• Flies will be sent as a plague.
• Righteous shall flee to Zion. Large crowds coming to Utah.
• Gangs will increase in numbers.
• Tornadoes shall come here in the West. High winds and cyclones.
• Ocean will become exceedingly rough, no ships can cross.
• American flag fades. Another flag (UN) appears.  
• War comes on American land.  
• Drops of rain as if carrying death wherever it lands.
• Northern Lights will be seen from SLC out of their regular bounds.
• Storms rage, people’s bodies are now charged with a downward flow of electricity instead of upward flows. Same with food.
• Earthquakes all over the earth.
• Darkness appears during the day and it looks like the stars are falling (earth is thrown out of its regular way, sun fails to follow its true course.)  Sees the Lost Tribes.
• Great flood in the Salt Lake Valley. Water subsides and people come back.  
• Land becomes fertile again. Utah becomes a place of refuge.  
• Sees Jesus Christ come in a cloud out of the East.
• Sees immortal mothers with babies in arms to raise during the Millennium.

 

 

 

Summary of Sarah Menet

 

• Planes crashed into two tall buildings.
• Jars dropped (symbolic) of liquid in major cities that caused death.
• Multiple plagues.
• Looting, marauders, gangs killing people.
• Long winter following the sickness that went into the summer.
• The economy and electricity are completely gone.
• People digging for worms for food.
• Little drinking water, water was contaminated (nuclear).
• Family against family, lost family bond.
• Saw “cities of light” (tent cities) as places of refuge.
• Tent cities were established before a biological attack.
• Cities of light had food that others did not and readily shared.
• Cities were gathered in the mountains.
• Saw a missile from Libya hit Israel (Iran sent it.)  Truck bombs go off and nuclear missiles in America.
• Fireballs from the sky started a lot of fires.
• Earthquakes in multiple places. Utah and the Mississippi River.

 

Summary of Suzanne Freeman

 

• Plagues, wet spring, joblessness and natural disasters.
• Foreign troops in America. Martial Law.  
• No church meetings allowed.
• No gasoline. Trucks refused to deliver in plague zones.
• Earthquakes, volcanoes and tornadoes in America.
• Chip in hand needed to buy or sell. Must make an oath.   
• Mild winter precedes a long winter.
• Several years in New Jerusalem.
• Must be selfless and willing to share to be ready to meet Christ.
• Must be able to rely 100% on the Lord.
• Lost Tribes will help Saints arrive to New Jerusalem.

             

 

 

Summary of Visions of Glory

 

• Earthquake off the Richter scale in Utah in the fall.
• Massive flooding with the earthquake.
• A devastating plague shows up after the earthquake.
• People were commissioned to survive.
• Airport flooded. Stopped supplies.
• People get angry with God over the quake.
• UN troops eventually get food supplies in.
• Chinese Troops show up and take over UN troops.
• Winter after the earthquake is mild.
• More earthquakes in the U.S. and around the world.
• SLC Conference flooded.
• New World Order is trying to be implemented.
• Nukes go off around the nation and Utah.
• Martial Law.
• Our spiritual preparedness helps us to see God’s guiding hand.
• Water is contaminated. Starts to clear up.
• Miracles abound. Fullness of the priesthood.
• Surge in missionary work.
• No cars on the streets. (no gasoline)
• Meeting at Adam-ondi-Ahman
• Treks to Cardston Canada to attend a tent city/gathering.
• Bodies start changing to meet the trials.
• A year after the earthquake missionaries sent back out.
• Gold and Silver are worthless.
• Changes in the earth.
• Tent cities were organized before the earthquake (p.163)  Not everyone goes to Missouri (New Jerusalem).
• No electricity. No news. No internet.
• Millennial conditions.